Topic

Programming

A collection of 8 issues

Remove a package dependency added via Swift Package Manager in Xcode 14.0 beta 4

I was recently working on v2 of Rest, a macOS & Windows app I built some years ago. It’s a break reminder app useful if you spend a lot of time on the computer. I had some trouble getting sound to play reliably on macOS Ventura’s beta (13.0

Showing and hiding alternate menu items in Swift on macOS

For v2 of Rest I wanted to have menu items that show alternate titles and actions when the user holds Option. After going through a couple of answers on StackOverflow and discussions they linked to, I found out it’s now way easier than ever to achieve it. There’s

Movable windows in Swift with no title bar

I recently sorted through 300+ emails of feedback for Rest, a macOS app I built some years ago. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, the app reminds you to take regular breaks. With my newfound motivation for a v2, I got to work. Since macOS 13

Generate animations and video with Go, gg and ffmpeg

I’ve been making some generative art pieces lately and publishing them on my other Instagram account and I wanted to make some animations. Result first: 0:00/1× So far I had only been using the excellent gg (Go Graphics) package for some static art. But how do you

Push Notifications for iOS and Android with a PHP back end

(Note: For Android, I only cover the PHP code used to send the notifications, while for iOS the guide is a lot more thorough.) Foreword At Free-eBooks.net, many of our readers wanted an easy way to get notified through our mobile apps about the newest titles we receive, so

An up-to-date guide to using PLCrashReporter in your app

A while back, I received an email from a user of Rest.app that it was crashing for him a couple of seconds after start. I tried to replicate the issue by asking for the app settings and running it on the same OS version as he did, but I

Getting started with Sublime Text (and becoming more productive)

I’ve been trying to convince a few of my colleagues of the wonders of Sublime Text for a while, and I’m hoping this small guide helps make the switch from any previous editors out there. Sublime’s combination of autocompletion, command bar, extensibility, speed and rich features is

Setting up Boris on macOS

Boris is a great little REPL (read-eval-print loop, aka interactive shell) for PHP. It allows you to quickly test and try out PHP code in the terminal. Boris is fairly straightforward to setup and run on Linux, but chances are, you, like me, have never paid much attention to or